The geriatric psychiatry fellow serves as the consultation-liaison psychiatrist assessing elder patients on the medical/surgical wards of Albuquerque Veterans Administration Hospital. Fellows develop skills in assessing and treating elderly patients with complex medical, psychiatric, and psychosocial disabilities.
Fellows build on their general psychiatry residency and provide teaching for medical students, residents of other specialties and patient care teams. They will develop skills in communicating with colleagues, chaplains, patients and their families. Fellows are expected to participate in the administrative management of the consultation-liaison service as well.
Ethics will be integrated into the clinical work with assessment of decision-making capacity and knowledge of the medico-legal issues facing older patients in the context of acute inpatient medical/surgical care.
Faculty includes: Cynthia Geppert M.D. PhD, Irene Ortiz M.D.
